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Correspondence of the Jefferson family

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  • "Jeffeson family correspondence"

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  • "Correspondence, 1822-1858 of Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge [19 items] and correspondence, 1789-1826 of Thomas Jefferson [63] items."
  • "In addition to correspondence the collection contains a poem in Jefferson's hand "Last Valentine day when bright Phoebus shone clear," a blank printed invitation card of Jefferson's; an "extract of a letter from Mr. Jefferson" concerning "Thomas's systematic arrangement of Coke upon Lyttleton"; a "Plan for a Botanick garden for a publick school..." in Jefferson's hand; various memoranda, poetry, notes in Jefferson's hand; and plat, drawn by Jefferson, of the sections of land making up his Poplar Forest Estate, Bedford County."
  • "Included is a note from Jefferson to grandson-in-law Joseph Coolidge conveying ownership of the desk on which he wrote the Declaration of Independence."
  • "Correspondents include Anne Cary Randolph Bankhead, [Joseph Carrington Cabell?], Henry Dearborn, John Wayles Eppes, Maria Jefferson Eppes, [Nathaniel Macon?], Wilson Cary Nicholas, Henry S. Randall, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Cornelia Jefferson Randolph, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Thomas Mann Randolph, Robert Smith, and Virginia Randolph Trist."

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  • "Letters (Correspondence)"

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  • "Correspondence of the Jefferson family"

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